Sony industry watchers have made an astonishing prediction about the PS3 launch date and its possible launch price. It isn™t anywhere what people were expecting. According to a Merrill Lynch report released last week, the Wall Street firm predicted that the PS3 launch price could be in the neighborhood of $900. According to the document released by Merrill Lynch, they speculated, Our updated analysis indicates that the initial bill of [assembly] materials for PS3 could approach $900